Returning to one of the outstanding movies of your young adulthood is not without some risk. Is it as good as you remember? Have the glasses through you gaze upon it become so deeply and heavily rose-tinted that they filter out even the merest hint of middle-aged criticality? In Continue Reading
1984: A very weird year for Stranger Things
SNAPSHOT Stranger Things season 2 is set a year after Will’s return, and everything seems back to normal… but a darkness lurks just beneath the surface, threatening all of Hawkins. It’s 1984 and the citizens of Hawkins, Indiana are still reeling from the horrors of the demagorgon and the secrets Continue Reading
Star Trek Discovery: S1, E3 “Context is for Kings” / E4 “The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry” review
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND FUNGUS WITH SOME WARP SPEED GRUNT … When most people reach rock bottom, the natural inclination is to immediately seize the first opportunity to get back up the slippery slope of life. But then most people are not Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green), most recently seen Continue Reading
All you need is a carrot: What is the hidden meaning of Frozen?
Ha! Think you know what Frozen is all about? Think it’s all about family schisms, unwelcome gifts of the metaphysical kind, estrangement, family, love and redemption? Think again my friends because as Earthling Cinema from the Wisecrack channel on YouTube hilariously and yet with an admirably straight face reveals, Continue Reading
Book review: The Trouble with Henry and Zoe by Andy Jones
If you were to look around the world right now, and to be fair, at any time through history, you would be well justified in concluding that humanity, for the greater part, does not have an expectationally-idealistic bone in its body. From war to famine, disease to relational destructiveness Continue Reading
Read all about it! Pop culture newspaper headlines courtesy of Movie Heds
Pop quiz! What a quick, visual, easy to comprehend expositionary device used in movies, particularly the pre-digital ones? No, not voice-over narration! That is very rarely done well and kinda annoying to boot. I’m referring to the use of news paper front pages, which effectively convey a ton Continue Reading
Now this is upbeat chilled music: Maya Jane Coles, Basenji, Tusks, J.Views, Anna of the North
Life is relentless. It has a momentum that is fierce and uncompromising, racing hand in hand to a future only it seems to know, leaving us hanging on for dear life. Or maybe that’s simply how it often feels. The truth is we do have the power to call Continue Reading
“But it’s gooooood …” New Star Wars: The Last Jedi trailer ramps up the galactic anticipation
SNAPSHOT Rey took her first steps into a larger world in Star Wars: The Force Awakens and will continue her epic journey with Finn, Poe, and Luke Skywalker in the next chapter of the continuing Star Wars saga. “The Last Jedi” is written and directed by Rian Johnson and Continue Reading
Movie review: The Girl with All the Gifts
The zombie genre has exploded in recent years, fuelled by a morbid end of days fascination with the way the apparent vivacity and robustness of human civilisation could so easily be brought down to undead ruin by any number of small, unnoticed Achilles heels. That’s good news if you Continue Reading
Audience meet protagonists: The impressive work of director Edgar Wright
No matter how you slice it, Edgar Wright is a very talented, immensely creative director/producer/screenwriter/actor, responsible for a slew of memorable movies including the Three Flavours Cornetto film trilogy (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World’s End), Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Ant Man and most recently, Continue Reading